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# Twisted (anthology)

Twisted is an anthology of horror short stories edited by Groff Conklin. It was first published in paperback by Belmont Books in May 1962 and reprinted in 1967. British paperback editions were issued by Horwitz in 1963 and Four Square Books in 1965. It has also been translated into Spanish.
The book collects fifteen novelettes and short stories by various authors, together with an introduction by the editor. The stories were previously published from 1843-1961 in various magazines.

## Contents

* "Introduction" (Groff Conklin)
* "The Playground" (Ray Bradbury)
* "The Other Hand" (George Langelaan)
* "The Thing in the Cellar" (David H. Keller, M.D.)
* "The Diary of a Madman" (Guy de Maupassant)
* "The Upturned Face" (Stephen Crane)
* "The Little Man Who Wasn't Quite" (William W. Stuart)
* "Night Drive" (Will F. Jenkins)
* "The Song of Marya" (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
* "Mrs. Manifold" (Stephen Grendon)
* "A Holy Terror" (Ambrose Bierce)
* "Impulse" (Eric Frank Russell)
* "Brenda" (Margaret St. Clair)
* "The Tell-Tale Heart" (Edgar Allan Poe)
* "The Shunned House" (H. P. Lovecraft)
* "The World Well Lost" (Theodore Sturgeon)
# Niphona lateraliplagiata

Niphona lateraliplagiata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Stephan von Breuning and Itzinger in 1943. It is known from Myanmar, China and Vietnam.
# Siege of Sardis

Siege of Sardis may refer to:
* Siege of Sardis (547 BC), the last decisive conflict after the Battle of Thymbra, which was fought between the forces of Croesus of Lydia and Cyrus the Great
* Siege of Sardis (498 BC) between the people of Sardis and an alliance of Greeks from Ionia, Athens, and Eretria
* Siege of Sardis (213 BC), fought between usurper Achaeus and the Seleucid Empire
# Velascálvaro

Velascálvaro is a municipality located in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 189 inhabitants.
# Mardi Gras Casino and Resort

Mardi Gras Casino and Resort is a casino and greyhound racing venue located in the city of Nitro, West Virginia. It is located just off the Cross Lanes exit of I-64, 14 miles west of Charleston, West Virginia and 36 miles east of Huntington, West Virginia. Although it is located within the city of Nitro, it is served by the neighboring Cross Lanes post office.
It features table games, slot machines, live greyhound racing, and off-track betting for both greyhound and horse racing. It also features several restaurants, food operations and a 150-room luxury hotel. The facility has a Mardi Gras theme.

## History

The facility was opened in 1985, as Tri-State Racetrack and Gaming Center, focusing specifically on greyhound racing. Slot machines were added in 2002. After casino gambling was legalized in 2007, the track expanded its casino offerings in 2008, and the facility was renamed Tri-State Casino and Resort. It currently has a large poker room, and offers the table games of blackjack, roulette, craps, three card poker, Mississippi stud, and Crisscross Poker.
It adopted is current name in 2010, a change made to reflect its Mardi Gras theme.
In March 2018, Hartman & Tyner sold the property to Delaware North, the owner of West Virginia's only other greyhound racing track, Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack. Since January 2023, they have been the only two remaining greyhound racing venues in the United States.

## Today

As of 2024, live greyhound racing is conducted each evening from Tuesday through Saturday at 6 PM, with Sunday and Monday being dark days without racing. Each day's racing program consists of between 15 and 20 races. Spectators are admitted free and races can also be streamed online.
# Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre backstroke S2

The women's 50m backstroke S2 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 5 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

## Results
### Final

Competed at 20:01.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 5 | Feng Yazhu | China | 1:03.00 | WR |
| | 4 | Ganna Ielisavetska | Ukraine | 1:04.14 | EU |
| | 3 | Iryna Sotska | Ukraine | 1:05.16 | |
| 4 | 6 | Daria Kopaieva | Ukraine | 1:14.32 | |
| 5 | 2 | Esther Overton | Australia | 1:16.09 | |
| 6 | 7 | Maria Kalpakidou | Greece | 1:24.37 | |
'Q = qualified for final. WR = World Record. EU = European Record. AF = African Record.
# Uncial 058

Uncial 058 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 010 (von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th century.

## Description

The codex contains a part of the Gospel of Matthew (18:18-19.22-23.25-26.28-29), on 1 parchment leaf (19 cm by 13 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 26 lines per page.
    18:18
    ΕΠ[ι της γης ε]
    ΣΤΑΙΔ[εδεμε]
    ΝΑΕΝΤ[ω ουρα]
    ΝΩ ΚΑΙ ΟΣΛ [..]
    ΛΥΣΑΤΕΠΙΤΗΣ
    [γ]ΕΣΕΣΤΑΙΛΕΛΥ
    [μ]εναεντωου
    [ρ]ΑΝΩ
    18:22
    ΚΙΣΑ[λ]Λ[α εως εβδο]
    [α]ΜΙΝΑΜΗΝΑΕ
    ΜΗΚ[ο]ΝΤΛ[κις ε]
    [γ]ΩΥΜΙΝΟΤΙ
    ΠΤΛ
    ΔΙΑΤ[ου]
    ΕΑΝΔΥΟΕΞΥΜΩ
    ΤΟΟΜΟΙΩΟ[η]ΗΒ[α]
    18:19 ΣΥΜΦΩΝΗΣΩ
    18:28
    [οφειλε]ΝΑΥ
    [τω εκατον δ]ΗΝΑΠΙΑ
    [και κρ[ΑΤΗΣΑΣ
    [α]υτονεπνι
    ΓΕΝΑΕΓΩΝΑ
    ΠΟΔΟΣΕΠΕ[ων]
    18:25
    [αποδοθη]ΝΑΙ           ΦΕΙΛΕΙΣΠΕΣ[ων]
    18:26 [πεσων]ΟΥΝΟΔΥ    ΟΥΝΟΣΥΝΔΟ[υ]
    [λος]ΠΡΟΣΕΚΥΝΕΙ       18:29 ΛΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΠΑ
    α]ΥΤΩΛΕΓΩΝΚΕ         ΡΕΚΑΛΕΙ ΑΥΤ[ον]
    ΜΑΚΡΟΘΥΜΗΣΟ        ΛΕΓΩΝΜΑΚΡ[ο]
    [ε]ΠΕΜΕΚΑΙΠΑΝ         ΘΥΜΕΣΟΝΕΠΕ
The Greek text of this codex Kurt Aland, with some hesitation, placed in Category III.
The manuscript was examined by Karl Wessely (1900), Joseph Karabacek, and C. R. Gregory (1887). Gregory gave for it siglum 058.
Currently the manuscript is dated by the INTF to the 4th century.
The codex is located at the Austrian National Library (Pap. G. 39782), in Vienna.
# MV Empire Albany

Empire Albany was a 306-ton Coaster which was built in 1944. She was renamed Albany in 1946 and disappeared on a voyage between Port Talbot and Rosslare in 1946.

## History

Empire Albany was built by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft as yard number 337. She was launched on 3 October 1944 and completed in December 1944. Empire Airman was owned by the Ministry of War Transport and operated under the management of the J Fisher & Sons Ltd.
In 1946, Empire Albany was sold to Mrs P Dowds, Ireland and renamed Albany. On 20 November 1946, Albany departed Port Talbot bound for Rosslare, but did not arrive. Albany was carrying a cargo of coal. Two ship's boats and the name board from Albany were washed up near St David's Head on 22 November.

## Official number and code letters

Official numbers were a forerunner to IMO Numbers.
Empire Airman had the Official Number 166695 on Lloyd's Register and used the Code Letters MPBM
# Vojvoda Dragomir

Dragomir Protić or Vojvoda Dragomir (Užice, Serbia, 1877 – Tabanovce, Ottoman Empire, 27 March 1905) was a Serbian voivoda (military leader) who fought in the struggle to liberate Old Serbia and Macedonia from the Turkish yoke. He was killed at the Battle of Tabanovce in 1905 along with all of his men, including the commander of the cheta Vladimir Kovačević.

## Biography

Dragomir Protić was born in Užice in 1877. He studied in Osečina and in Šabac. He graduated from the Military Academy in Belgrade. In the spring of 1905, Lieutenant Protić, along with several non-commissioned officers, was given the task to join up with the troop headed by Vladimir Kovačević and breakthrough to Poreč to reinforce the Mountain Headquarters with officers' cadre. The aim was to arm Skopska Crna Gora's base for operations in the Upper Vardar River Basin.
Protić's task included the transfer of a large number of rifles and ammunition to Poreč. After the descent from Kozjak mountain, Protić and his 22 Chetniks were attacked by a unit of the Turkish army near the village of Tabanovce. The next day, Protić and 10 of his men lay dead and two slightly wounded. The Turks lost 60 soldiers in the fight, either dead or wounded.
A street in Belgrade, on Vračar, was named after him.
# MY Age of Union

MY Age of Union is a vessel of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fleet, the ship was previously named after American television producer and writer Sam Simon, who donated the money to purchase the vessel. The ship's identity was kept secret, to be revealed when she met the Japanese whaling fleet in 2012, but was identified when her registration was discovered on the Australian Maritime Safety Authority's list of registered ships.
Age of Union is the former Japanese weather survey ship Kaiko Maru No 8. Sea Shepherd paid the Government of Japan AUD $2,000,000 for the vessel. She was renamed MV New Atlantis shortly before being moved to Brisbane, Queensland. She was subsequently re-registered under the Australian flag as a pleasure craft called Sam Simon.

## Service

Age of Union was built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co Ltd in Tokyo, Japan as Seifu Maru (清風丸, Seifū Maru – meaning cool breeze), a marine meteorological and oceanographic observation ship. The purpose of Seifu Maru and her sister ships was to conduct observations of the pollution affecting the marine environment in the waters around Japan and the western North Pacific, covering greenhouse gases, ozone-depleting substances, heavy metals, and oils. The Japan Meteorological Agency operated five ships: Chofu Maru (長風丸, 1987), Kofu Maru (高風丸, 1988), Seifu Maru (清風丸, 1993), Ryofu Maru (凌風丸, 1995) and Keifu Maru (啓風丸, 2000). Seifu Maru was operated by the Maizuru Marine Observatory and worked in the Sea of Japan. The Japanese ARGO Program (アルゴ計画) was completed and the un-needed vessel was sold to Offshore Operation Co. Ltd and was renamed Kaiko Maru No 8 in 2010.
In September 2012, Kaiko Maru was purchased by New Atlantis Ventures LLC, based in Wilmington, Delaware USA (a shell corporation of Sea Shepherd), and renamed New Atlantis, registered under the flag of Tuvalu. In December 2012, New Atlantis was renamed Sam Simon. $500,000 of upgrades for increased speed and range were undertaken in Brisbane, where she was docked and supplies were taken on board for the voyage to the whale sanctuary. The vessel was publicly unveiled in Hobart, Tasmania in December 2012.
On February 20, 2013, the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru collided with Sam Simon, MY Steve Irwin and MY Bob Barker multiple times in a confrontation in the Southern Ocean, north of Australia's Casey Research Station in Antarctica.
The MY Sam Simon currently operates in Europe and West Africa. In Europe, the Sam Simon crew are filming the activities of trawler type vessels in an attempt to draw attention to dolphin bycatch (dolphins unintentionally caught in the nets of the trawlers). In West Africa, the Sam Simon crew are partnering with several Governments to stop illegal fishing happening within West African waters.
As from 24 May 2021, the MY Sam Simon has been sighted in the Port of Gibraltar for a technical call.
Sam Simon was renamed Age of Union in January 2022 after a $4.5 million donation by Dax Dasilva.
# Nitrendipine

Nitrendipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker. It is used in the treatment of primary (essential) hypertension to decrease blood pressure and can reduce the cardiotoxicity of cocaine.
It was patented in 1971 and approved for medical use in 1985.

## Medical uses

Nitrendipine is given to hypertensive individuals in 20 mg oral tablets every day. This amount is effective in reducing blood pressure by 15–20% within 1–2 hours of administration. With long-term treatments, the dosage may rise to as much as 40 mg/day; in elderly individuals, a lower dosage of up to 5 mg/day may be equally effective (this reduction in drug amount is attributed to decreased liver function or “first pass” metabolism). Once digested, nitrendipine is absorbed into the blood and binds to plasma proteins. The majority (98%) is bound to plasma proteins and 70-80% of its inactive polar metabolites are also bound to plasma proteins. Following hepatic metabolism, 80% of the 20 mg dose can be recovered in the first 96 hours as inactive polar metabolites. The specific volume of distribution of the drug is 2-6 L/kg. In terms of drug half-life, nitrendipine has a half-life of 12–24 hours. The reported side effects include: headache, flushing, edema and palpitations. These side effects can all be attributed to the vasodilation effect of this drug.

## Mechanism of action

Once nitrendipine is ingested, it is absorbed by the gut and metabolized by the liver before it goes into the systemic circulation and reaches the cells of the smooth muscles and cardiac muscle cells. It binds more effectively with L-type calcium channels in smooth muscle cells because of its lower resting membrane potential. The nitrendipine diffuses into the membrane and binds to its high affinity binding site on the inactivated L-type calcium channel that's located in between each of the 4 intermembrane components of the α1 subunit. The exact mechanism of action of nitrendipine is unknown, but it is believed to have important tyrosine and threonine residues in its binding pocket and its binding interferes with the voltage sensor and gating mechanism of the channel. Thought to have a domain-interface model of binding. In hypertension, the binding of nitrendipine causes a decrease in the probability of open L-type calcium channels and reduces the influx of calcium. The reduced levels of calcium prevent smooth muscle contraction within these muscle cells. Prevention of muscle contraction enables smooth muscle dilation. Dilation of the vasculature reduces total peripheral resistance, which decreases the workload on the heart and prevents scarring of the heart or heart failure.
Nitrendipine has additionally been found to act as an antagonist of the mineralocorticoid receptor, or as an antimineralocorticoid.

## Stereochemistry

Nitrendipine contains a stereocenter and can exist as either of two enantiomers. The pharmaceutical drug is a racemate, an equal mixture of (R)- and the (S)-forms.
Enantiomers of Nitrendipine :
| (R)-(+)-Nitrendipine CAS number: 80890-07-9 | (S)-(-)-Nitrendipine CAS number: 80873-62-7 |
# Peter McKay (cricketer)

Peter John McKay (born 12 October 1994 in Burton-upon-Trent) is an English cricketer who played for Warwickshire between 2013 and 2015. He is a left-handed batsman who also plays as a wicket-keeper. McKay made his first-class debut for Warwickshire against Oxford MCCU in April 2013.
# Swimming at the 2012 Summer Paralympics – Women's 50 metre butterfly S5

The women's 50m butterfly S5 event at the 2012 Summer Paralympics took place at the London Aquatics Centre on 7 September. There were two heats; the swimmers with the eight fastest times advanced to the final.

## Results
### Heats

Competed from 11:07.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Teresa Perales | Spain | 43.22 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Joana Maria Silva | Brazil | 48.37 | Q, AM |
| 3 | 3 | Wu Qi | China | 48.84 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Reka Kezdi | Hungary | 50.49 | Q |
| 5 | 6 | Diana Zambo | Hungary | 51.19 | Q |
| 6 | 7 | Natalia Gavrilyuk | Russia | 58.74 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 4 | Sarah Louise Rung | Norway | 42.60 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Natalia Shavel | Belarus | 47.01 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Katalin Engelhardt | Hungary | 50.79 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Jaide Childs | United States | 51.57 | |
| 5 | 6 | Simone Fragoso | Portugal | 58.14 | |
| | 7 | Stefania Chiarioni | Italy | DSQ | |

### Final

Competed at 19:28.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Sarah Louise Rung | Norway | 41.76 | |
| | 5 | Teresa Perales | Spain | 42.67 | |
| | 6 | Joana Maria Silva | Brazil | 46.62 | AM |
| 4 | 3 | Natalia Shavel | Belarus | 46.64 | |
| 5 | 2 | Wu Qi | China | 47.51 | AS |
| 6 | 1 | Katalin Engelhardt | Hungary | 47.71 | |
| 7 | 7 | Reka Kezdi | Hungary | 48.92 | |
| 8 | 8 | Diana Zambo | Hungary | 52.59 | |
'Q = qualified for final. AM = Americas Record. AS = Asian Record. DSQ = Disqualified.
# Uncial 062

Uncial 062 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering) ε 64 (Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament on parchment, dated palaeographically to the 5th century.

## Description

The codex contains a part of the Epistle to the Galatians (4:15-5:14), survived only one leaf (22 cm by 18.5 cm). The text is written in two columns per page, 33 lines per page. It is a palimpsest. The upper text is Arabic.
The Greek text of this codex Aland placed it in Category III.
It is dated by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research to the 5th century.
The codex used to be located in Damascus, in Qubbat al-Khazna (Ms. E 7332).
# Two of Us (Azu album)

Two of Us is the second studio album by Azu, released on 17 March 2010. "Happily Ever After" was used as the ending theme song for the TV program Ousama no Brunch. The album reached #13 on the Oricon weekly charts and charted for nine weeks.

## Catalog number

    BVCL-83/4 (limited edition)
    BVCL-85 (regular edition)

## Track listing

CD
* Intro from Radio 13
* Hot like Fire
* Happily Ever After
* Ima Sugu ni... (いますぐに…; Right Now...)
* Anata ni Aitakute featuring Spontania (あなたに愛たくて; I Want to Meet You)
* For You
* Beautiful Dreamer
* Oh Baby featuring Kusakawa Shun
* I Will
* You & I featuring LOVE LOVE LOVE
* Love Groovin' featuring KURO (from HOME MADE Kazoku)
* Onegai! (おねがい!; Please!) (AZU-ko Sensei featuring SEAMO-kun)
* What Girls Want
* Letter... ~Taisetsu na Hito e~ (letter... ~大切なひとへ~)
DVD
* "As One" music videos
** Cherish
** Jewel Sky
** Koiiro (コイイロ; Color of Love)
** Jikan yo Tomare featuring SEAMO (時間よ止まれ; Stop Time)
** Rainbow
* Mobile Music DOR@MO "I Will" (alternative ending)
* AZU TV (making and offshoot)

## Charts

| Chart | Peak position |
| Oricon Daily Chart | 9 |
| Oricon Weekly Chart | 13 |
Total reported sales: 22,427
# Vytautas Šarakauskas

Vytautas Šarakauskas (born 8 February 1982 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for Jurbarkas-Karys of the National Basketball League (NKL).

## Professional career

Šarakauskas started his career with SSK–Perlas Vilnius in the LKAL league. He went undrafted in the 2004 NBA draft. In 2006, Šarakauskas moved to BC Sakalai of the LKL league. He averaged 10.8 points per game and 6.6 rebounds per game his rookie season in the league.
Three seasons later, Šarakauskas signed with BC Šiauliai. Šarakauskas soon became a starter for the team. During the 2010–11 season, he nearly averaged a double-double in both the LKL league and the BBL league. In 2012, he moved to BC Neptūnas.
In the summer of 2011, Šarakauskas led his national team to a fifth place at the 2011 World Military Basketball Championship.

## Player profile

Šarakauskas is 2.04 meters (6 feet 8 inches) tall and plays the power forward and the center positions. He has averaged nearly one rebound every four minutes on the court across his career.
# MV Shelly

MV Shelly was a 1,599 GT cargo ship that was built in Bulgaria in 1973. She sank off the Mediterranean coast of Israel in 2007 after the 10,392 GT cruise ship CS Salamis Glory rammed her and broke her in two. Two of Shelly's crew were killed.

## Ship

The Ivan Dimitrov shipyard on the River Danube in Ruse, Bulgaria built the ship and launched her in 1973 as Zlatograd. She changed hands in 1999 and was renamed Loti. She changed hands again in 2002 and was renamed Dora. In 2003 Israeli owners bought her, renamed her Shelly and registered her in Slovakia. She was crewed not by Israelis but by other nationalities, mainly Slovaks and Ukrainians.

## Collision and sinking

On 30 August 2007, Shelly was at anchor about 1.6 nautical miles (3 km) off Israeli coast, near the port of Haifa, when at about 10pm she was accidentally rammed by the Cypriot passenger ship Salamis Glory, which had left port at Haifa several minutes before. Shelly sank quickly after the collision, which the Israel Broadcasting Authority said broke her in half. 11 crew members escaped, and most climbed aboard a rescue launch lowered by Salamis Glory and were subsequently rescued by the Israeli Navy. The rest were rescued by helicopter. The survivors refused to be taken to a local hospital for treatment. Salamis Glory subsequently returned to port in Haifa, showing slight damage to her hull. None of Salamis Glory's 700 or so passengers and crew was injured.
The remaining two crew members were declared missing, prompting a search and rescue operation involving six naval vessels, multiple aircraft and divers. 12 hours after the sinking their bodies were recovered from the wreck by divers in 20 metres (66 ft) of water. The dead were identified as the ship's Indonesian First Mate and Ukrainian engineer.
The vessel's sinking released an oil spill that moved down the coast, causing authorities to warn the public not to bathe at the nearby Zevulun beach.
On 31 August Salamis Lines, owners of Salamis Glory, arranged for 148 stranded Cypriot passengers from the ship to be flown back to Cyprus on a Cyprus Airways jet.

## Investigation

Israeli Police launched a full investigation into the cause of the accident, aided by Cypriot authorities. All of Salamis Glory's crew were interviewed. One possibility being considered was that there was a fault in the ship's navigation system, with some reports of a loss of steering control aboard Salamis Glory.
# Nitrenium ion

A nitrenium ion (also called: aminylium ion or imidonium ion (obsolete)) in organic chemistry is a reactive intermediate based on nitrogen with both an electron lone pair and a positive charge and with two substituents (R$_2$N$^+$). Nitrenium ions are isoelectronic with carbenes, and can exist in either a singlet or a triplet state. The parent nitrenium ion, NH+2, is a ground state triplet species with a gap of 30 kcal/mol (130 kJ/mol) to the lowest energy singlet state. Conversely, most arylnitrenium ions are ground state singlets. Certain substituted arylnitrenium ions can be ground state triplets, however. Nitrenium ions can have microsecond or longer lifetimes in water.
Aryl nitrenium ions are of biological interest because of their involvement in certain DNA damaging processes. They are generated upon in vivo oxidation of arylamines. The regiochemistry and energetics of the reaction of phenylnitrenium ion with guanine has been investigated using density functional theory computations.
Nitrenium species have been exploited as intermediates in organic reactions. They are typically generated via heterolysis of N–X (X = N, O, Halogen) bonds. For instance, they are formed upon treatment of chloramine derivatives with silver salts or by activation of aryl hydroxylamine derivatives or aryl azides with Brønsted or Lewis acids. The Bamberger rearrangement is an early example of a reaction that is now thought to proceed via an aryl nitrenium intermediate. They can also act as electrophiles in electrophilic aromatic substitution.
# Sigma 18-300mm f/3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM lens

The Sigma 18-300mm F3.5-6.3 DC Macro OS HSM Contemporary is an APS-C superzoom lens made by Sigma Corporation.
# Peter Nolan

Peter Hugh Nolan CBE (born April 1949) is the Chong Hua Chair in Chinese Development and is Director of the University’s Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He previously held the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, at the Cambridge Judge Business School also at the University of Cambridge. Nolan is a member of the Advisory Board of Cambridge Journal of Eurasian Studies.
Nolan was named in the 2009 New Year Honours and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work in developing British and Chinese business relations.
Peter Nolan received his BA degree from the University of Cambridge, and his MSc and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by Copenhagen Business School.
Peter Nolan is the independent non-executive director of China International Capital Corporation Limited.
Nolan is the doctoral advisor of Liu Chunhang, the son-in-law of former PRC Premier Wen Jiabao.
# Vera Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte

Vera Cruz is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.